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First Assignment on Soft Computing Techniques

General Directions:

1. This is an individual assignment.

2. The questions are taken from Chapter 1 of your lecture notes.
3. Try to finish it within the deadline shown above.
4. Any late coming assignment will have 2% mark deduction for each day passing the
deadline.
5. Try to read the textbook and/or the lecture notes thoroughly before you answer any of
the questions.
6. Any form of cheating will result in nullification of the marks you earn in this
assignment.
7. This assignment is to be sent via E-MAIL mekonnenabdu@gmail.com.

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Part-I: Answer the following questions

1. What is soft computing? Define it vividly. (1%)

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2. Soft computing consists of several computing paradigm. What are they? List all of
them. (2%)

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3. What is the main goal of soft computing? (2%)

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4. What is the aim of soft computing? List and discuss all of them. (2%)

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5. What is the difference between crisp sets and non-crisp/fuzzy sets? (3%)

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6. What are fuzzy operations? List all of them. (1%)

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7. What are neural computers? Describe clearly. (2%)

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8. What is a perceptron? List and discuss the two types of perceptron? (2%)

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